[lbo-talk] The Necrosocial

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 20 11:35:09 PST 2009


On Nov 20, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> This might be relevant, from The Coming Community:
>
> "IF WE had once again to conceive of the fortunes of humanity in
> terms of
> class, then today we would have to say that there are no longer
> social classes,
> but just a single planetary petty bourgeoisie, in which all the old
> social
> classes are dissolved: The petty bourgeoisie has inherited the world
> and is
> the form in which humanity has survived nihilism. [...]

It's a lot easier to write theory when you don't actually have to marshall any empirical evidence. Because to make an argument like this, you couldn't marshall any empirical evidence.

Yours in vulgar empiricism,

Doug



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